Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.

“Since 2018, labor columnist Kim Kelly brought the labor beat to teenage readers through her “No Class” column, covering everything from wildcat strikes to general strikes, the Gilded Age labor organizer Mother Jones to contemporary Amazon warehouse conditions.” 💔 thisislaborwise.com/teen-vogues-...

I’m going to basically spend all morning laughing like a maniac. I have BEEN saying! Rebuilding civic infrastructure is EVERYTHING.

Last week, we launched the world's ultimate guide to climate solutions -- the Drawdown Explorer. People thought we were nuts to give it (and all the underlying data) away for free. But we insisted. During a crisis, you don't put crucial data behind a paywall.

✅ Worked against AI.

Red line. My @smh @theage cartoon.

“AI’s environmental footprint does not happen one prompt at a time. By making the calculation as if it did, the number hides the fact that Google and its peers are building an entirely new digital infrastructure at a massive scale”

Director of European Transport Safety Council: "Europe now risks being flooded with oversized, under-regulated US pick-up trucks and SUVs – heavier, more dangerous to other car drivers, pedestrians and cyclists, and completely out of step with Europe’s vision for safer, more sustainable mobility.”

Europe and Canada, please team up and declare war on Silicon Valley 🙏

Google's claim that each AI prompt uses the energy of 9 seconds of television is like throwing dispersant over an oil slick. The only way to get a number that low is with massive scale, which you should definitely worry about. medium.com/@dnafus/why-...

Users hate AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final. And it needs all of your data to do it. In the age of no consent, UX exists to normalized complete acquiescence to surveillance:

“Meta means for Hyperion to dominate the landscape, culturally, economically + metaphorically. The use of a literal landscape to convey this message is no accident, and specifically NYC — far from where the demand for energy to fuel AI is remaking whole communities — is pointed.”

It’s pretty simple: - AI is driving electricity demand up - The Trump Administration is restricting new electricity supply from being built - When demand goes up and supply goes down, you pay more for electricity.

Concerns about the far right should also be concerns about mainstream politicians and media as they have played a key part in making the far right the threat it is today despite pretending to be bulwarks You can't defeat the far right without changing a system that uses it as a distraction

This is why everything is "software as a service" now: you can lock you customers in on long term contracts billed per seat, rather than having to make a good product that people like to use

Not just Canada: "In other words, if the United States were to issue a legal request to Microsoft for the data of a French citizen hosted in the EU, Microsoft would comply regardless of French or EU law."

So the AI bubble was all just a hallucination, but it turns out it was the humans hallucinating, not the robots... 😬 www.latimes.com/business/sto...

GPTesus take the wheel

All historians should read this jaw dropping interview as a case study in moral and political decrepitude. Evidence if any more were needed that the accrual of massive amounts of evidence about the past does not automatically engender a critical reflection on the present.

I mean, they are singing from the same sheet of music in a way - shareholders. If the big whale shareholders have decided LLMs are over, CEOs will change their tune very quickly.

My contention about a hot civil war is that we have been living in one for decades at this point, I would say since 1982, but very slow moving. What do you think all those mass shootings are actually about? Look who is mostly perpetuating them (white males) and what they target (public institutions)

I’m so sorry 😞 I wonder if collective resources like this could be any help? against-a-i.com

AI slop steals from human artists and writers to enrich the billionaires that fund fascism. You will not defeat fascism by posting pictures made on the fascist billionaires' energy and water guzzling plagiarism extruder.

“energy and water guzzling plagiarism extruder” I like that definition a lot.

Just think - if one million people turned off their wifi for one hour it would save enough electricity to run one ChatGPT data center for ten seconds

Monkey vs Robot youtu.be/k1Csif5l_6c?...

Kamala Harris should absolutely not be allowed to talk about broken political systems as if she was not recently one of the most powerful ppl win the world.

American fascism emerges from a context where the most powerful people in America don’t care enough about democracy to fight for it.

This is what happens when a coup succeeds. They didn’t need to win on the day itself. The leaders knew that the system was fragile & cowardly enough to never truly hold them all accountable. All they needed was to fight from within the system itself. Just like a famous past failed coup leader.

Part of the reason that so many of us are spinning our wheels trying to figure out how to beat fascism and coming up empty is that the nature of fascism has evolved drastically. To beat it, we need to keep up. My latest. It is very long. Because this is the most important piece I've ever written.

"But besides that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?"

It's easy to assume that anything you can buy in a shop, find in your house or apply to your body must be safe Because they wouldn't be allowed to sell it if it wasn't, right? I mean, someone must have tested it, right? Wrong

I support Palestine Action in its judicial review of the government's ban.

This remarkable woman has very successfully shown what a mockery our steadfastly and quite far right wing Labour government has become. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Palestinian statehood is not a bargaining chip. It is not a threat. It is an inalienable right of the Palestinian people. Our demands on this shameful government remain the same: end all arms sales to Israel, impose widespread sanctions, and stop the genocide, now.

UK ban on Palestine Action at odds with international law, says UN rights chief

Britain has saddled itself - or more accurately, UK govt has saddled Britain's consumers - with paying for the most expensive nuclear plant ever And I'm bored of saying it, but that means other more cost-effective & faster action on climate change will not happen www.ft.com/content/e1e1...

That the incredible cognitive power of the human brain and body takes only 2000 calories a day to fuel, and occupies quite considerably less than the space of Manhattan, suggests there is something catastrophically wrong with the design of AI.

No one.

Sandy Hook parent says tragedies are inherently political: “You may not believe in climate change, but insurance companies absolutely do.”

💯 “A truly credible response to the climate crisis demands a whole-system approach. That means aligning climate goals with economic and social policy, and recognising the broader benefits — from improved health to reduced inequality — that come with reducing energy demand.”

A new app details where your food comes from — and just how fragile the global food system really is

A new report at Harvard Dataverse citing Israeli military data suggests that in addition to the nearly 60,000 Gaza health ministry counts (morgue data) another 377,000 people are possibly missing and presumed dead dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

Posted a little while ago that ICE is forming bounty hunter squads. $1000 for every person they nab. Don't think it's true? They made an app for it called ICERAID. Jan 6 thug, Enrique Tarrio, is running it for Trump. en.cibercuba.com/noticias/202...

what worries me about takes like this is not that he might go ahead and order his engineers to do it, but the number of people that'd believe this bs as legitimate

hell yeah